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I tried singing. I tried playing a musical instrument. I really wanted to be a musician, but I never could quite pull that off. I liked entertaining, but I was always drawn to some kind of technical work - some kind of honest labor.

— Bill Cobbs

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I always wanted to be a full-time musician. Every television job I had was a means to buy a grand piano, or to put in a recording studio, or something like that.

— John Tesh

Playing in my early bands, working as a studio musician, producing and going to art school was, in retrospect, my apprenticeship. I was learning and creating a solid foundation of ideas, but I wasn't really playing music.

— Jimmy Page

I enjoyed singing and playing guitar but didn't have the stamina to make music-making a career. In reality, writing was my real gift, and as soon as I figured that out I never looked back.

— Ann Powers

I worked full time jobs, basically doing manual labor until I could make enough money supporting myself as a musician.

— Flea

I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.

— Madonna Ciccone

I really wanted to just be a musician. I didn't want to be anything else, but I was funny and all that.

— Jamie Foxx

I just became a singer, because I could never get work as an actress.

— Barbra Streisand

I really wanted to be a musician, but it turned out I had no sense of time.

— Tom Perrotta

✗Opposing Perspectives

I just had to find something else to fulfill me. Always being a singer and writing, it was a blessing. My brother started making music that was the kind of music I always saw myself singing.

— Taryn Manning

I did everything I could to not be a musician.

— Dhani Harrison